LOL! High Powered Sniper Rifle. Heh...
Guys, here's my take on this.
I also was on TFL when this came up, and if memory serves, the issue at the time was an alleged "straw purchase". After much confusion and ballyhoo'ed investigation, miraculously, the paperwork suddenly showed up, and everything was found to be in order.
Methinks I smell a rat.
Translation: Ol' Sarah decided that gun laws are for criminals, didn't want to bother with the process that the "little people" have to live with, bought the gun, and gave it to little Jimmy. When word got out, had to scramble to cover her tracks. She called her lackeys at the VPC, they pushed on the panic button on the Hill, and the ATF boys hustled to make everything alright, in an orchestrated maneuver to cover her ???. As they rifled (no pun intended) through the gun store's paperwork, the proper form gets slipped in the proper place, and... voila! One or two sound bites in the paper, six weeks of waiting for the dust to settle, and the public forgets it ever happened.
But if it were one of
us that ran afoul of the paperwork...
Ok... I'm done, now.